Salary: £26,224.12 - £27,763.32 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 37 hours per week
Job Description
To work with and provide care and support to service users with extreme learning disabilities who exhibit a variety of challenging behaviours posing a range of physical and emotional challenges.
Responsibilities
* To provide direct support to service users who exhibit extreme challenging behaviour to manage the behaviour and to enable them to participate in a wide range of therapeutic and social activities.
* To uphold social work values and to ensure good working practice including understanding and awareness of health and safety
* To promote the independence and develop the skills of service users and assist with all tasks necessary to ensure positive life experiences
* To work positively with other agencies, parents, carers, and other services to ensure a quality provision of care for service users
* Develop and contribute to the maintenance of service user records and support plans and act as a key worker when required.
* To ensure that the living environment of the service users is clean and appropriate to meet each individuals needs
* To participate in regular and ongoing training relevant to the needs of the service users.
The Individual
* Experience that would give the post holder insight into issues in relation to working with people with a disability who exhibit challenging behaviour.
* Willingness to undertake SVQ level 2
* Willingness to undertake further training as required
* Willing to work towards SSSC
* Good Practical Skills
* Good Observational Skills
* Flexibility, Empathy and Approachability
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Ability to remain calm in a crisis
* Ability to reflect on your own practice
* To understand your own feelings about being challenged
* Knowledge of Social Care Values
* Ability to form positive relationships with service users, colleagues, parents and other professionals
* Sensitivity and understanding of discrimination and health and well being issues
* Flexible approach to work patterns and bases and ability to work within a shift based rota system
* Ability to respond appropriately in difficult or challenging situations
* Ability to work effectively as part of the support team and in multi-disciplinary settings
* Ability to use own initiative and to be self motivated
* The ability to engage service users in activities and participation within their home and in the local community
* Ability to communicate in an open an approachable manner
* Ability to carry out duties that involve personal care of service users
* Ability to carry out moving and handling duties in line with health and safety regulation and risk assessment
* Ability to support service users with physical activities such as swimming, hydro therapy etc
Closing Date: 16 May 2025
Starting Salary: £26,224.12
£13.63 per hour
full-time and part-time contracts available.
For further information contact: Kate McClue 01343 842390
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